Blogging has brought a new dimension to my life where I can pen my thoughts, pent up feelings, fear, pain without any fear of remorse; where I am, at times, alone but Never Really alone in blogsphere. A place that I can almost call, "Home" where I can just blog away about anything that touches my heart strings. However do remember the recipes I upload are what I have learnt and the notes are my personal notes and the remarks are my own opinion.

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Monday, April 30, 2012

A butterless Orange & Almond cake

A health conscious customer ordered this cake for her daughter's birthday. I bought some Marzipan & made the Orange Marzipan the nite before & baked the cake the next day. Making this cake is not easy as whenever you beat the egg yolks from the egg whites & beat them separately, you have to be extremely careful that the bowl & whisk you use to beat the egg whites should be clean & grease free that there shouldn't be even a trace of egg yolk in the egg whites otherwise you cant whisk your egg whites to a meringue stage. But most important, you should beat the egg whites to soft peak, IF you over beat the egg whites, it will split. To know when the egg whites is soft peak; remove the whisk & turn it up; the TIP of the egg white should be curled. IF the tip of the egg white is straight then it is possible that you have over whipped. We were told that there were two options; the obvious is to throw your egg white mixture; wash the mixing bowl & dry it with a clean & Dry kitchen towel & the next option is to add half a tablespoon of Lemon juice & beat the egg white for a short while & remove the whisk & see whether the tip is curled in. For me, I would advice going for the first option ie throw away & start beating the egg white again as I have never tried doing the second option.

You would also be wondering, as this cake has No butter, whether the cake would be soft & light. Well this cake is perfectly soft & light. We were taught, amongst other things, to use ground Almonds & I think that made the difference.

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Welcome to my blog. Thanks for visiting me. Hope you enjoyed reading and will appreciate any comments from you.I have, Always, been consumed by a burning desire to be an icon first, in baking and then cooking as I always believe that food is the glue that keeps the family together. It was good that I started learning baking more than 20 years ago to destress for now after retiring more than 6 years ago I am able to go full time in doing what I love best; baking and selling my cakes. Anybody can learn how to bake but genuine interest has to come from the heart and if you want your cakes or food to taste good, You have to bake/cook from the heart.